Blushfire – A Storm the Size of Four Earths

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Di A Storm the Size of Four Earths, Blushfire menulis tentang perempuan yang terus menyetir sambil berharap ada yang menangkapnya, dan tempat yang ia pilih untuk berhenti adalah bintik merah Jupiter. Badai raksasa itu jadi rahim tempat narator ingin dilahirkan ulang, sekaligus alasan untuk menolak dicintai. Ia ingin ditelan habis dan takut ditelan habis, dua-duanya dalam satu tarikan napas.

Ada kerinduan yang sengaja mengunci pintunya sendiri, dan saya belum pernah mendengar ketakutan pada cinta digambarkan seluas itu. Lalu reffnya datang sebagai permohonan pendek, “Don’t, don’t promise me love”. Kalimat paling pasrah di lagu ini justru berbentuk larangan.

Lagu ini berangkat dari vokal yang sepi dan dekat, alurnya dream dan agak basah, lalu pelan-pelan menebal jadi gelombang aransemen yang saling tumpang tindih, sampai dentuman drum yang gelap akhirnya pecah. Lapisan vokalnya membubung sekilas ala Cocteau Twins, sementara vokal yang diturunkan nadanya menggeram dari bawah. Bulu kuduk kita bergetar sebelum badainya benar-benar sampai.

Blushfire kini sedang menempa diri di jalur komposisi. Kalau badai pertamanya saja seukuran empat bumi, kita tunggu saja ukuran badai setelah A Storm the Size of Four Earths.

Lirik Lagu Blushfire – A Storm the Size of Four Earths

She loves people
With oceans in their eyes
Knowledge of the night
Will she keep driving?
She's slippery, she slides
Praying to be caught
In Jupiter's red spot
Where she'll stop driving
I'll, I'll be birthed
In a storm the size of four earths
Don't, don't promise me love
A shiver that ripples on and on
Over that flat land over hills and hills
Don't, don't promise me love
Ravel me tight as a spool of thread
And death will let me leave her bed
Teasing 100
She loves you too fast
You could be that angel
From two lifetimes past
She watch the shellfish
Retreat to their holes
Freedom got too big
Even for the bold
I'll, I'll be birthed
In a storm the size of four earths
Don't, don't promise me love
A shiver that ripples on and on
Over that flat land over hills and hills
You won't love me, will you?
Ravel me tight as a spool of thread
And death will let me leave her bed
Don't, don't promise me love (Don't, don't promise me love)
Don't, don't promise me love (Don't, don't promise me love)
A shiver that ripples, A shiver that ripples
Don't, don't promise me love (Don't, don't promise me love)
A shiver that ripples, A shiver that ripples
A shiver that ripples, A shiver that ripples
Don't, don't promise me love (Don't, don't promise me love)

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Keheningan malam yang syahdu terasa makin lengkap dengan alunan ulasan SP’s – Spirit World serta ulasan arsip Kent Olsson – Lipstick on the exit sign.